#alcohol

Alcohol is like love," he said. "The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#habitude #love #routine #love

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you. ↗

— Tomoko Yamashita

#coffee #fireworks #flowers #love #maisen

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing? Would Great Ormond Street be so attractive a cause if its beds were riddled with obnoxious little criminals that had “brought it on themselves? ↗

— Russell Brand

#drug-addiction #family #sympathy #family

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#angry #angry person #became #due #i

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#alcohol #behavior #binge #communities #drinking

I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep. ↗

— Mark Rice

#heavy-metal #mark-rice #metallic-dreams #punishment #sleep

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood. ↗

— David Gest

#back #because #childhood #comes #demon

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#appreciation #back #children #feelings #i

Question for your life: If Ted Kennedy made it to heaven, do you think he’s pleased with the fact that Jesus can turn water into wine? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#alcoholic #alcoholism #heaven #jesus #pleasure

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#humor #liquor #humor